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Sam Smith
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Founder & CEO of C-Change Scotland. Author, human rights defender, gestalt coach.
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suenitos.bsky.social
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." — Hannah Arendt
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Nightly votive in the porch garden.
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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andrewcutting.coe.int
A day ahead of its 75th anniversary, nearly 300 UK-based organisations have spoken out in defence of the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... via @the-independent.com

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75
Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry
Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty
www.independent.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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gregpak.net
One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan
Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
October 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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grouchymarkx.bsky.social
Remember these would this Saturday for No Kings...
October 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 6
NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...
October 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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October 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
samc-change.bsky.social
Tired, so very tired of this s**t
felicityhannah.bsky.social Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · Oct 3
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
October 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats.

Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
officialjackwhite "Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career," wrote Cheung. "It's apparent he's been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of The People's House."--White House Communications Director Steven Cheung Listen, I'm an artist and not a politician so I'm in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I'm not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn't me calling out trump's blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous "wall" construction, his attacks on the disabled his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake "gunshot to the ear" that he showed no medical records or photographs of his constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. No, it wasn't me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults. How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? Masquerading as a real artist? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here's my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being. officialjackwhite He's masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He's been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he's involved in has prospered except by using other people's money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and "ample time on at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain't spending any money agenda. on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot. No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves. And no I'm not a Democrat either, I'm a human being raised in Detroit, I'm an artist who's owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief.
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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ccpscotland.bsky.social
“There is still – just – time to turn this around, but it’s running out.”

Read our CEO @r-cackett.bsky.social’s blog on yesterday’s open letter to the First Minister & @heraldscotland.bsky.social’s report into the threat posed to social care ➡️ bit.ly/3UzOdKG
A quote from Rachel Cackett, CEO of CCPS: “With a spending review and budget coming up it is absolutely THE time to make some key decisions for the future of crucial support for individuals, families and communities across Scotland. That is the basis of our joint call to the First Minister with the Alliance.” The graphic also contains a photo of Rachel and the CCPS logo.
August 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
samc-change.bsky.social
It is hard to engage the media on complex issues.

The headline always needs to be attention grabbing.

But, social care requires urgent attention.

The long read article may help broaden an understanding of what social care is and does.

And hopefully, provoke those with power to invest in it.
ccpscotland.bsky.social Coalition of Care & Support Providers in Scotland @ccpscotland.bsky.social · Aug 17
‘Action needed now to avert health and social care crisis in Scotland’, over 200 third sector leaders urge First Minister in open letter, published in today’s Herald on Sunday.
@heraldscotland.bsky.social
On a blue background, a graphic showing a white envelope and a letter jutting out of the top. The start of the letter reads ‘Dear First Minister, We write to you as leaders and representatives of organisations within the third sector in health and social care, to call for immediate action to address the profound crisis threatening our sector.’ There is a green band at the base of the image featuring the logos for the Coalition of Care & Support Providers in Scotland and the ALLIANCE. Next to the logos is the wording ‘Read the letter from 200+ health and social care organisations’.
August 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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‘It’s apocalyptic’: Scotland’s care system faces collapse

More than 200 charities who provide the bulk of health and social care have written to John Swinney warning the sector is on the brink and vulnerable people are in peril

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2539561...
240 lifeline Scottish charities warn Swinney they’re at breaking point and face collapse
Inside Scotland’s care crisis: 240 lifeline charities
www.heraldscotland.com
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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crossreach.bsky.social
Our CEO @vivd1.bsky.social joins third sector organisations calling for action to address the health & social care crisis in open letter to the First Minister in todays Herald
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bit.ly/3V6ohGw

@heraldscotland.bsky.social @neilmackay.bsky.social
@ccpscotland.bsky.social @alliancescot.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night
August 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Haha! It worked!

I scoped out the angle this morning and figured I’d be very lucky to pull it off, but it was surely worth a try, eh?

#Edinburgh #RedArrows #Photography
A spiral staircase in a lovely concrete carpark. Out the top of the stair you can see the sky, Edinburgh Castle, and the Red Arrows.
August 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
"The game of football is quite unsuitable for females and ought not to be encouraged" - the Football Association, 5th December 1921

Lily Parr, the first women's football superstar and the Dick Kerr Ladies team

www.thefa.com/womens-girls...
July 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
samc-change.bsky.social
Another cracker from Michael Spicer.

Fed Chair Powell appears to be doing an impersonation of Professor Proton from The Big Bang Theory 😆.
July 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Convicted predators who rape and abuse children shouldn’t qualify for pardon consideration. A president who can’t immediately say “absolutely not” when I asked if he’s considering such a pardon should be hounded out of office.
July 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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pbump.com
Two little anecdotes this morning reinforce the extent to which a shared inferiority complex drives right-wing politics.
Governance by inferiority complex
(White House photo via Flickr) Story one: As he left the White House this morning on his way to the golf club he owns in Scotland — the ones he owns in Bedminster, N.J. or Sterling, Va. apparently no ...
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July 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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THIS
July 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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July 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM